Example sentences of "check [adv] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out of the corner of my eye I thought I saw a white butterfly — but it was the white pattern on the tail of an adult , checking up on the brood . |
| 2 | He was here checking up on the search for Terry Place . |
| 3 | Having been made to look stupid , he let us go without even checking up on the tax or the tyre . |
| 4 | Although , for the man who checks up on the standard of Britain 's prisons , there 's still some way to go . |
| 5 | Furthermore , when he checked back on the correlation between his simple lix values and the criterion of pooled estimates of difficulty , he found that the figure was 0.92 , which was exactly the same as that obtained from the multiple regression . |
| 6 | Bear in mind that presentational matters are for the convenience of your reader , who will want to be able to check easily on the materials you have used . |
| 7 | The only point of Mr Baker 's tests that I can divine is that they will serve to check up on the teachers . |
| 8 | A POLICEMAN was fined £500 yesterday after using the main police computer to check up on the boyfriend of a neighbour 's daughter . |
| 9 | Northern Ireland people will now be able to check up on the levels of ozone , nitrogen dioxide and sulphur dioxide from data compiled in monitoring stations throughout the province . |
| 10 | The Inspector had pulled his radio out to check up on the ambulance . |
| 11 | It was my job to check up on the flock every morning and on Sundays Uncle Joe would come to the farm . |
| 12 | Catch the earliest flight down to London , check up on the Lennox twist . |
| 13 | This allows us to do more than simply check back on the forecasters ' performance on individual countries ; it enables us to assess which forecaster has the best record across all the big economies . |